He took it all too far, but boy could he play guitar.

I suppose for me as an artist it wasn't always just about expressing my work; I really wanted, more than anything else, to contribute in some way to the culture that I was living in. It just seemed like a challenge to move it a little bit towards the way I thought it might be interesting to go.

I have a very strong paternal streak. I'm a born father...I get such enjoyment out of being with children. Now they are enjoyable little things. They really are. I like their kind of humor. You can stuff all your punk bands, give me three children instead.

I wish myself to be a prop, if anything, for my songs. I want to be the vehicle for my songs. I would like to colour the material with as much visual expression as is necessary for that song.

I think hip-hop is actually one of the most challenging things that's happened in music in a long time.

I didn't say that wearing a glamorization of the rock artist was any truer from the other thing.

I think music should be tarted up, made into a prostitute, a parody of itself. It should be the clown, the Pierrot medium.